States that were not signatories may become Parties by acceding to the Convention.

Parties in such cases are required to undergo conciliation proceedings and may only bring their case to court once conciliation has failed.

Parties may contract for liquidated damages to be paid upon a breach of the contract by one of the parties.

These " politically neutral " groups tend to avoid global conflicts and view the settlement of inter-human conflict as separate from regard for nature-in direct contradiction to the ecology movement and peace movement which have increasingly close links: While Green Parties and Greenpeace, and groups like the ACTivist Magazine for example, regard ecology, biodiversity and an end to non-human extinction as absolutely basic to peace, the local groups may not, and may see a high degree of global competition and conflict as justifiable if it lets them preserve their own local uniqueness.

Parties to international franchising may decide to adopt the English language for the document, as long as the Brazilian party knows English fluently and expressly acknowledges that fact, to avoid translation.

Parties that formed a coalition for the general elections may continue to work together but they do not form a unified political bloc at the Congress ; parliamentary groups are identified by parties and not by coalitions.

States of the former Soviet Union that have not already become States Parties to the treaty may accede to it at any time.

Sensor categories may be added and capabilities improved by agreement among States Parties.

Furthermore, in the case of far-right, far-left and regionalist parties in the national parliaments of much of the European Union, mainstream political parties may form an informal cordon sanitaire which applies a policy of non-cooperation towards those " Outsider Parties " present in the legislature which are viewed as ' anti-system ' or otherwise unacceptable for government.

Parties to the Convention that are not Parties to the Protocol may only participate as observers in the proceedings of meetings of the COP-MOP.

Parties may also take into account, consistent with their international obligations, socio-economic considerations in reaching decisions on import of LMOs.

Under this procedure, A Party must inform other Parties through the Biosafety Clearing-House, within 15 days, of its decision regarding domestic use of LMOs that may be subject to transboundary movement.

Parties of the centre-right generally support liberal democracy, capitalism, the market economy ( though they may accept government regulation to control monopolies ), private property rights, and a limited welfare state ( for example government provision of education and medical care ).

Parties who face uncertainties regarding the facts and circumstances attendant to their side in a dispute may sometimes invoke alternative pleading.

Parties found in violation of this requirement may be abolished by the constitutional court.

Since the 1992 Parties Law, only registered parties may stand.

Scott Nearing does not seem to have participated in the factional politics of these years, although his sympathies may well have rested with the former Socialists now building the various Communist Parties.

Parties may be estopped from litigating determinations on issues made in prior actions.

* Regional parties — Parties based in a particular region may win a substantial number of constituency seats in that region without necessarily gaining a large share of the national vote.

Parties focused on particular ethnic or religions minorities may also come under this category, particularly if seats are reserved for these groups.

Parties that win many local seats but attract a reduced list vote may receive an overhang as a result.

Both Parties likewise agree to forego compensation for any civilian damages, which may have been suffered by the nationals of the one Party on account of so-called exceptional war measures or on account of emergency measures carried out by the other Party.

Parties may be formed at any time prior to the caucuses on the first night of the State Conference but the earlier the better.

According to Article 12, Parties are directed to adopt a protocol that establishes liability rules and procedures that are appropriate for damage that comes from the movement of hazardous waste across borders.

The Conference of the Parties uses expertise and support from several other bodies that are established by the Convention.

Leading up to the Conference of the Parties ( COP 11 ) meeting on biodiversity in Hyderabad, India 2012, preparations for a World Wide Views on Biodiversity has begun, involving old and new partners and building on the experiences from the World Wide Views on Global Warming.

* www. cop10. org-NGO info and strategy site for COP10, the 10th Conference Of Parties to the CBD in Nagoya, Japan from Oct 18 ~ 29, 2010

Species are proposed for inclusion in or deletion from the Appendices at meetings of the Conference of the Parties ( CoP ), which are held approximately once every three years, the most recent of which ( CoP 15 ) was held in Qatar in March 2010.

There has been increasing willingness within the Parties to allow for trade in products from well-managed populations.

Specific weaknesses in the text include: it does not stipulate guidelines for the ' non-detriment ' finding required of national Scientific Authorities ; non-detriment findings require copious amounts of information ; the ' household effects ' clause is often not rigid enough / specific enough to prevent CITES violations by means of this Article ( VII ); non-reporting from Parties means Secretariat monitoring is incomplete ; and it has no capacity to address domestic trade in listed species.

Suggestions for improvement in the operation of CITES include: more regular missions by the Secretariat ( not reserved just for high profile species ); improvement of national legislation and enforcement ; better reporting by Parties ( and the consolidation of information from all sources-NGOs, TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network and Parties ); more emphasis on enforcement-including a technical committee enforcement officer ; the development of CITES Action Plans ( akin to Biodiversity Action Plans related to the Convention on Biological Diversity ) including: designation of Scientific / Management Authorities and national enforcement strategies ; incentives for reporting and timelines for both Action Plans and reporting.

On 15 July 2008, the Committee that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country.

It only applies to languages traditionally used by the nationals of the State Parties ( thus excluding languages used by recent immigrants from other states, see immigrant languages ), which significantly differ from the majority or official language ( thus excluding what the state party wishes to consider as mere local dialects of the official or majority language ) and that either have a territorial basis ( and are therefore traditionally spoken by populations of regions or areas within the State ) or are used by linguistic minorities within the State as a whole ( thereby including such languages as Yiddish and Romani, which are used over a wide geographic area ).

Parties that obtain fewer constituency seats than their national share of the vote are allotted seats from party lists to make up the difference.

Kyoto Parties with first period ( 2008-2012 ) greenhouse gas emissions limitations targets, and the percentage change in their carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion between 1990 and 2009.

The provisions of the Protocol include the requirement that the Parties to the Protocol base their future decisions on the current scientific, environmental, technical, and economic information that is assessed through panels drawn from the worldwide expert communities.

Delegates from 60 countries attended an international convention of Natural Law Parties held in Bonn Germany in 1998.

Applications from other interested States are subject to a consensus decision by the Open Skies Consultative Commission ( OSCC ), the Vienna-based organization charged with facilitating implementation of the treaty, to which all States Parties belong.

The parties to the convention have met annually from 1995 in Conferences of the Parties ( COP ) to assess progress in dealing with climate change.

This EPA estimate is based on methodologies agreed to by the Conference of Parties of the UNFCCC, with 100-year global warming potentials from the IPCC Second Assessment Report used in estimating GHG emissions as carbon dioxide equivalents.

Parties have avoided nominating tickets containing two candidates from the same state.

X appeared at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 19, 2009 and at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead, England from the May 15 – 17 where they had been invited to perform by the festival's curators The Breeders.

During that period his name was listed in the ' Excluded Parties List ' to prevent him from receiving grants form any government agency.

Green Parties are almost universally egalitarian in their outlook, seeing that great disparities in wealth or influence are caused by the perversion of or total lack of social institutions that prevent the strong from plundering the weak.

The Protocol addresses the obligations of Parties in relation to the transboundary movements of LMOs to and from non-Parties to the Protocol.